On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Victor Vasiliev vasilvv@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Is it time for us to think about H.264 encoding on our own videos?
Hello, Brion.
I think it is time for Apple to support Wikipedia videos. I suggest that we view the thing from this point of view — Apple do not run a Top-10 site, we do.
That would be nice but is completely unrealistic. Apple doesn't support Flash and that's on a lot more sites of the world. They don't bow to pressure from major players who could make them $$$, and they are certainly not going to bow to us. Besides, the lack of wikipedia videos does not appear to be hurting their performance.
Apple has a 30% market share for US smart phones[1] and their global tablet share is 58% [2]
Since such a huge market share basically requires H.264 encoding, I think we should bite the bullet and go for it. If suddenly they start charging, we can drop it immediately.
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/comscore-us-subscriber-count-reaches-100-... [2] http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/26/strategy-analytics-apple-still-owns-table...